Vinyl

INDIE/FOLK-ROCK. After touring the world as a member of the POSTAL SERVICE in 2013, Laura Burhenn (THE MYNABIRDS) took a year to get lost. "lovers know" is definitely a new territory for Burhenn, forging into '80s, '90s and futuristic soundscapes, recalling KATE BUSH, SINEAD O'CONNOR, THE JESUSC AND THE MARY CHAIN and MY BLOODY VALENTINE. The album may be loaded with a fresh palette of new sounds (swarms of synths, gauzy electric guitars, and electronic drums), but her brooding, unmistakable voice leads the way. Double vinyl comes with a gatefold-sleeve and includes a digital download card.

INDIE/FOLK-ROCK. Before GEORGIE JAMES, Laura Burhenn (half of the former duo) had spent her early years crafting music on her own. So when GEORGIE JAMES split, she went back to what she knew. "what we lose in the fire we gain in the flood" was recorded in the rugged hills of Oregon in the summer of 2009 with singer-songwriter/producer Richard Swift at the helm. Laura and Richard took turns at instruments until the record was fully orchestrated. The album features some notable guests besides Richard's Swift's contributions on backing vocals and nearly every instrument imaginable.

BLACK/FOLK-METAL"mareridt" (nightmare) is the highly anticipated sophomore full-length from renowned Danish composer and multi-instrumentalist. MYRKUR explores deeper into the mysterious and the feminine with 11 tracks that further progress her visionary blend of metal with gorgeous, stirring melodies, dark folk passages, choral arrangements and superb, horrific beauty. Further taking MYRKUR to new artistic heights are lyrics in multiple languages, an unforgettable collaboration with CHELSEA WOLFE and an array of special instrumentation. "mareridt" is a profound manifestation of nightmares that demonstrates MYRKUR as one of the truly exceptional artists of our time.

CRUST-HARDCORE. MYTERI’s debut full-length album is a sprawling and unforgiving opera of darkened heavy punk that draws much influence from legendary crust bands like AMEBIX, ANTISECT, and from head-on collision-like d-beat bands like WOLFPACK, DOOM and DISFEAR. In any case, this is a prime example of amazing melodic heavy crust - if you like TRAGEDY, this shit will clamp on to your soul and not let you go ever again. Ten songs of misery and despair - d-beat and booze throughout this raw mayhem.

HARDCORE-PUNK. pasivos/muertos" is the 2nd 7" from this San Francisco band featuring members of LOS CRUDOS, LIMP WRIST and LODO Y ASFALTO. N.N. delivers 4 tracks of hardcore-punk with melody and fury while maintaining a political, personal message with loads of bite. A Spanish-language release and another to add to thegrowing list of U.S.-based Latino hardcore-punk.

HARDCORE. For the 1st time ever on vinyl is this often-overlooked mid'80s demo from NYC hardcore misfits, THE N.Y. HOODS, whose members went on to play in bands like SIDE BY SIDE, ABSOLUTION, BURN and BREAKDOWN. Vinyl includes a digital download card.

POST-PUNK-ROCK. Sheffield's NACHTHEXEN have a few brilliant releases under their belt now. This latest slab of vinyl builds on the great signature synth-punk sound they've already established, but also offers an exciting range of new ideas and nods to different styles. This is bolstered by the shouty punk vocals and excellent lyrics which will instantly strike a chord with anybody who's ever had their night out shat on by belligerent sleazes with no concept of personal space. Limited edition of 750 copies on red vinyl.

INDIE-ROCK. The long out of print NADA SURF "Karmic" release is finally repressed. This release offers up a portrait of NADA SURF in its formative stage, before the New York City-based power-pop band made the leap to a major label during the alternative-rock boom in 1996. With its relatively lo-fi production and restless energy, "Karmic" highlights NADA SURF's punchy, guitar-driven attack more than frontman Matthew Caws's earnest charm or keen songcraft making. This is the one that started it all! "Karmic" includes abonus track called "Pressure free" that has only been previously available on a rare 7''.

DRONE/AMBIENT. This recording (on a single sided 7") demonstrates NADJA's ability to fuse their sound to the construct of the pop cover, with the cover in question being "long dark twenties", which was written by Paul Bellini of THE KIDS IN THE HALL! In doing so, NADJA displays traits rarely exibited in their music, like full vocals, drumming, even the good old classic pop chorus, all in such a remarkable way this it shows all that the possibilities for reinvention with this group are far from exausted. Comes with hand letterpressed covers (both inside and out) and will be available in colored vinyl.

DRONE/AMBIENT. Canadian doomgazers NADJA make an outstanding contribution to Southern's ongoing Latitudes series with this immense album, divided into 2 long-form compositions. The 1st, "jaguar" is a slow-building droner that builds up into a booming low-end dominated soundscape that exudes abstract sludge-maetal gravitas. "sky burial" is quicker to assert itself, cranking up the NADJA drum machine to a curmudgeonly bpm count and wailing through fizzy, colourful walls of electronics bass that lurch about in a minor key.

DRONE/AMBIENT. When the esteemed Canadian avant-drone duo NADJA and the German experimental drone pioneers TROUM combine their exceptional styles, they form something more vast than their parts. These 3 collaborative tracks are the result of aspontaneous improvisation in 2008. The songs' powerful and emotional drone melancholy work in many micro-and-macrocosmic ways. After the excellent collaboration record with PYRAMIDS another masterpiece from NADJA. Limited to 500 copies on 180gr vinyl.

DOOM-METAL. Good things come to those who doom: 18 years have passed since NAEVUS from Southern Germany have released their debut album via Rise Above Records. After a 13-year break (1999 - 2012) the four-piece decided to start working on a 2nd release. Four years later "heavy burden" is finally out. Those who have listened to the German doom institution in their earlier days will notice that NAEVUS take a more laid-back stance nowadays than they did at the end of the '90s. Groovy, occasionally jazzy doom-metal, hard rocking stoner parts, the mellow vocals, the well-versed drumming: NAEVUS have grown up, but don't sound less compromising in the slightest. Colored vinyl comes in a gatefold-sleeve with additional lyric booklet (12 pages) and includes a digital download card.

HARDCORE/METAL. NAG is a three-piece metallic-punk band hailing and howling from the Norwegian west-coast. Bizarrely, a record so rooted in the crust sound is at it’s most pleasing when it’s furthest away from the scuzz and festering rot of the genre. "nagged to death" is full of chest-beating overdriven punk anthems with repeated, belted out lines and crowd-pleasing riffs, for sure, it’s just far more enjoyable when NAG are playing with traditional metal aspects and slowing things down. This is a record that will conflict the crusties who want everything fast all the time. Throw TRAP THEM, GUST, BAPTISTS, and RED FANG into the ring together and the ensuing violence would sound a lot like this.

SINGER/SONGWRITER. Some people go a lifetime without knowing their mission in life, without feeling they have true calling, and without knowing why they even do what they do. NAHKO is not one of them. And that calling and mission has never been clearer than it is on NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE's 3rd full-length album. On "hako", Oregon-born singer/songwriter NAHKO's voice is strong. His mission is clear. The mandate has been thrown down. It's what Crazy Horse would say when he went into battle, "hoka, hey!" action to the words and the lyrics. Colored vinyl comes housed in a gatefold-cover and includes a digital download card.